It may be a bit late in the thread to return to the original debate. However, being a highly secular person myself, I have to fault Mr. Nye for having pointed out the "inaccuracy" of the biblical text as part of his lecture. Anybody who made it through elementary school knows that the moon does not produce its own light. The only exception might be somebody so committed to literal interpretation that they would refuse to believe empirical evidence if they thought it contradicted scripture. Such a person will not benefit from being told anything contrary to their beliefs.
By seeming to challenge biblical text (even in a light-hearted manner), Mr. Nye may have made more people uncomfortable than just those who vocally opposed him. Furthermore, it can be legitimately claimed that the Moon does provide light at times when the Sun is not below the horizon, which to me seems a legitimate interpretation of the passage. In my opinion, this kind of attitude gives secularists a bad name and religious extremists ammunition they don't need. --John Emmerling ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
